The following stories on antibiotics have been compiled on Becker’s Hospital Review over the past month, starting with the most recent.
1. Patients receiving delayed antibiotic prescriptions or no prescription at all did not experience worse symptoms than patients who received immediate antibiotic prescriptions, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.
2. A student at the University of Texas at Arlington has discovered an effective antibiotic combination that combats Clostridium difficile more effectively than either antibiotic alone, according to a BioNewsTexas report.
3. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., have discovered a new class of antibiotics that combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcs aureus, according to an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
4. Certain antibiotics, azithromycin and levofloxacin, may be linked to a higher risk of death or cardiac arrhythmia than amoxicillin, according to a study in Annals of Family Medicine.
5. A study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology finds patients with penicillin allergies experience longer lengths of stays and higher rates of healthcare-associated infections.
6. Beta-lactam antibiotics increase the risk of C. diff for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
7. Urinary tract infection testing for children often produces varied results, which may affect appropriate antibiotic prescription, according to a study at the St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference.
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